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Two from Wawasee in Alpha Lambda Delta

Two Wawasee High School graduates became members of the Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society at Ball State University on Sunday. April 1. The students are Aurea Roa and David Denney. Miss Roa is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Armado Roa of Milford. Denney is the son of Mrs. Fred Avery of Syracuse. The purpose of Alpha Lambda Delta is to promote a high standard of learning and to encourage superior scholastic

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achievement among freshmen students. Working toward this goal, the organization recognizes and selects for membership all freshmen who achieve a 3.5 grade point ratio in the/all quarter or achieved a 3.5 overall accumulative grade ration at the end of winter or spring quarter. Ball State supports the ideals of this national honorary and believes that the recognition of these freshmen encourages good scholarship. It is a mark of excellence to be named to a college (Conti page 2)

Dale Butt begins 35th year at Wawasee Boat

By ARCH BAUMGARTNER Thirty-five years is a long time to be employed by the same firm ... almost anyone would agree to this. It’s a distinction few can claim, but one such claimant would be Dale Butt, service manager at the long-established Wawasee Boat Co., located on the north side of Lake Wawasee. Butt began his 35th year with the local firm on Sunday, April 1. (No foolin!) Party For Dale The present owners of the boat company, Doug and Carolyn Anderson and Don and Rowena Impey, didn’t want the occasion to go unobserved, so they held a dinner for Dale and his wife Dolly at the Windjammer last Thursday noon. Other special guests include Kenneth and Leia Harkless, founders of the boat company in January 1929. And so the dinner not only marked Butt’s 35th year, but the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding as a local business. It’s service to the community and to those who love things nautical has been an ongoing love affair over the past 50 years. Butt became employed by the boat company on April 1, 1944. He remembers those years as “the war years’’ when not many boats were being built or sold.

LandrO-Lakes Division elects William Dorsey

Kiwanis Clubs of the Land-O-Lakes Division held, elections. March 31. at the regular meeting of the Wawasee kiwanis. Sherm Bryant, North Webster, present lieutenant governor opened the activities by presenting each club with a list of their projects, present and planned. Past Lieutenant Governor Charlie Hassel opened nominations for Lieutenant Governor for 1979-80 and 1980-81. Outcome of the voting produced Bill Dorsey, Nappanee, for 197980 and Robert Steele. Warsaw for the following year. The lieutenant governor's job is to oversee his division and represent them in state and

MAD plans "old fashioned" happening

Members of the Milford Area Development Council met Tuesday afternoon to plan for the annual Memorial Day events. Those present decided to have an old fashioned theme this year with an egg toss, sack race, three-legged race, wheel barrow

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national conventions. LanckOLakes division includes following Kiwanis clubs:* Bremen, Columbia City, Lakeland, Warsaw Lakeside, Middlebury, Nappanee Noon, Plymouth. Warsaw Noon, Nappanee 11. Milford and Wawasee. In other business the Wawasee Kiwanis accepted two new members, Herschel Wells, owner of a new restaurant in Syracuse and Dan Gallmeier, police officer for Syracuse. Special guest was Kay Kirkpatrick. a Wawasee High School senior, who presented a speech for an oratorical contest entitled “Drugs in America-Better or Worse”

race, ice cream eating contest and rides for the kids. The annual barbecue will also be held and an adult softball game will be held in the afternoon. Booths will also be set up. Anyone wanting informaton on booths should contact MAD president Rich Stoller or other MAD officers. The committee is also looking for a hot air balloon to complete the day’s activities. Anyone with information on where such a balloon can be found should contact one of the officers. Thieves damage pop machines S9OO for $9 Milford Marshal David A. Hobbs, reported thieves opened several pop machines at service stations and a supermarket in Milford early Sunday, April 1. He believes a tire iron or tool was used to pry open the machines. One machine, which was pried open, was at Ruch Service on SR 15 and another one across the highway at Schwartz’s Supervalu. The thieves also opened one machine and damaged another one at Bruce’s Texaco Service Station, Milford and forced open another machine at Tim’s Sunoco Station, on the south edge of town. Marshall Hobbs and Kosciusko County Patrolman Brant Nellans discovered other thefts at businesses located along SR 15. All of pop machines were located on the outside of the businesses. The total loss from the machines was set at $9 and the damage to the six machines was estimated at S9OO by Hobbs.

Butt sat in his office Monday morning recalling those early years. “Shucks,” he recalled, ‘ in those days a good boat sold for SIOO a foot or less. This was a general rule of thumb.” “A good boat cost $995, and now that same boat costs about $5,000,” Butt observed. He added that a j~ c top of the line boat now costs SIO,OOO to $12,000. Mainly Service But sales wasn’t the big thing for Dale Butt, service manager. He contented himself with service and there was always plenty of this to keep him busy. “Why, I recall this area, and so does Ken Harkless, when this area was a swamp, but look at it now.” Ken Harkless gave his early life to his boat company and built it to a complex of brick buildings that ranks among the best marinas to be found anywhere in the Midwest. Butt recalls that Ken and Leia Harkless (and he give Leia high marks for being a motivating factor behind the business) sold their prosperous marina to Clifford J. Kinder in September 1968. Kinder had just sold the Kinder Manufacturing Company, builders of mobile home furniture, to Congoleum-Nair, and was looking for other interests in the lakes area. During the five and a half years that Kinder owned the marina, Butt was general manager, all of which included sales and service.

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Bazaar this week end

By JERI SEELY The work of the majority of the people in the Milford communitywill be culminated this week end, April 6,7 and 8, at the Milford ALS Community Bazaar. All funds from the week end’s events will be used to purchase advanced life support equipment for the Milford Emergency Services, Inc. The goal: $20,000. Commenting on the bazaar, chairman Mrs. Glen (Jean) Treesh stated, “This effects everybody in the whole community. We re having really interesting things. We want everyone to come to all these things.” Events will get underway in the Milford junior high school gymnasium at 9 a.m. on Friday. Underway at that time will be the bazaar, fleamarket and bake sale. Both American and Mexican food will be available in the school cafeteria. Friday’s events will continue until 8 p.m. Saturday’s events will begin with a pancake and sausage breakfast sponsored by the Milford Kiwanis Club. Breakfast

will be served in the school cafeteria from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. The bazaar, fleamarket and bake sale will open at 7 a.m. and will continue until 4 p.m. At 1 p.m. on Saturday an auction will be heLd at the junior high school gym. Lee Beer and Ron Beer will serve as auctioneers. A number of quilts and afghans will be featured in the auction as well as household items. A benefit square dance will be sponsored by the Milford Lions Club on Saturday night. It will be held from 7:30 until 10:30 p.m. in the north end of the Barth van building. Dr. Gervas Schafer will do the calling. On Sunday the Milford Volunteer Fire Department will be sponsoring a ch icken barbecue from 11 to 3 p.m. at the fire station. This will be carry-out only. Tickets will be available at the doors for all events. Set Up Thursday Mrs. Treesh stated the committee would be setting up for the various events on Thursday. Bazaar projects and fleamarket items should be taken to the

Kinder sold to Harry Bishop, whose expertise as a mechanic was widely known. Bishop owned the marina for four years, during which time Butt went back as service manager. And then, in October of 1977, the Andersons and Impeys purchased the marina and it became a “must” that Butt remain on as service manager. Butt recalls seeing a host of mechanics work at the Wawasee Boat Co., and he can tick off the names of them all, good and bad, with familiarity. At the present time there are six mechanics working with Dale. He said he has seen the business “increase at least 20-fold.” Butt is a native of the Albion area, but calls the lakes area his home. He and Dolly reside on route 4 Syracuse (road 13 south) and have two sons, Ken, who also works at the marina, and Roger, who works in Goshen but lives in the Syracuse area. Doug Anderson is president of the company, Don Impey is secretary-treasurer, Carolyn Anderson is accountant-office manager, and Rowena Impey has the full responsibility of the ship’s store. It’s been a long tour of service for Dale Butt, but the twinkle in his eye and the übiquitous smile that reveals only a few lines around the eyes, leads one to believe there are more good years ahead. “I’ve got at least 20 more years in me,” he concedes.

gymnasium on Thursday between 8 a m. and 4 p.m. Baked goods should be delivered on Friday or Saturday morning, not on Thursday. Last fall announcement was made by the Milford Emergency Services, Inc., of plans to update its education and equipment. This, the EMS members stated, would entail extensive further education in advanced life support. This would include IV therapy, heart monitoring and defibrillation. Further education and advanced equipment, the EMS officials stated, would enable the service to better treat and stabalize the patients at the scene and enroute to the hospital. These functions will be controlled thru direct communication with the emergency room physicians thru specialized radio communication. In order to advance this service to the community the EMS sought the aid of the community. On Wednesday, Nov. 8, a meeting was held in the Milford Fire Station to better acquaint the community with the goals and needs of the department. The

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equipment was shown and demonstrated to those present. Response from that meeting was in the form of donations and plans for a community bazaar. Volunteer Service The Milford Emergency Medical Services, Inc., is a unique unit in the fact that it is a volunteer unit. It has been in operation for almost five years with the ambulance being purchased and put into operation in November of 1974. It was the first volunteer ambulance service in Kosciusko County and when the present volunteers finish their classes and pass written tests and equipment is purchased the Milford unit will be the first to be able to work in advanced life support. Howard (Hop) Haab donated a building on Main Street to the EMS and within a year the building was remodeled. The building is used to store the ambulance and equipment, as a place to train, as an office and meeting place and the front is used as a senior citizens center. The Milford unit averages over (Continued on page 2)